I was trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 using a geli encrypted disk and
ZFS on my ThinkPad R500 this weekend. I failed.
Having sucessfully initialized the geli part and having attached the
provider, my attempt to create a zpool on the geli section thus
$> zpool create ntank /dev/ada0p2.eli
failed with the message
Cannot create 'ntank': invalid argument for this pool operation.
I could not convince the system to create the zpool on the geli part, so
I gave up and created the zpool on the unencrypted partition instead to
have a working machine for the week. I would, however, like to have my
data on an encrypted partition though. Has anyone witnessed and resolved
this issue or does anyone have other ideas?
Thanks for your help, cheers,
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Christopher J. Ruwe
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